I've recently been taking a management class that uses Re-Imagine! by Tom Peters as the text book. There are so many things talked about in the book that parallel the problems that companies like Sony are having right now. The large companies and their dominance in some industries is failing. This is in large part due to their lack of ability to adapt to a new global market place and the new technology. The Internet has completely changed the face of how most companies do business. Those who aren't willing or able to throw off the old completely and risk everything for the new will be pushed to the wayside. The movie and music companies are learning this the hard way and it's showing. There complete lack of focus on developing new money streams and new innovative ways to deliver content to their customers is driving customers away in droves. Think of where online entertainment could be right now if they had chosen a different path? What would of happened if they had embraced the Internet early on instead of these RIAA and MPAA chest beating?
Sony's attitude is just a symptom of what is effecting much of big business throughout the world. They are too afraid to take the risk needed to stay the top of their respective industries. Sony should be embracing the Internet and see it as a great opportunity to grow their business and provide an outstanding service and product to its customers. Instead they see it a roadblock. Something they need to control or hamper so they can continue to do business as they see fit instead of in the manner their customers demand.
-Seranfall
I've gone to many lan parties. From 5 people upto 100 people. I have to say the biggest gripe is power outages. Make sure you properly test the power network at the event location. Make sure you have ample power.
Test everything. Make sure your network, power, and servers are up to the challenge. Also have backups! Things will die, make sure you have a few spares of everything.
If your having the lan party in the summer make sure the place has sufficient cooling. When I went to lansanity someone turned the A/C up too high and it froze so it stopped working. Try having 100 people in a room and it be 95 inside. There were computers overheating all over the place.
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I've recently been taking a management class that uses Re-Imagine! by Tom Peters as the text book. There are so many things talked about in the book that parallel the problems that companies like Sony are having right now. The large companies and their dominance in some industries is failing. This is in large part due to their lack of ability to adapt to a new global market place and the new technology. The Internet has completely changed the face of how most companies do business. Those who aren't willing or able to throw off the old completely and risk everything for the new will be pushed to the wayside. The movie and music companies are learning this the hard way and it's showing. There complete lack of focus on developing new money streams and new innovative ways to deliver content to their customers is driving customers away in droves. Think of where online entertainment could be right now if they had chosen a different path? What would of happened if they had embraced the Internet early on instead of these RIAA and MPAA chest beating?
Sony's attitude is just a symptom of what is effecting much of big business throughout the world. They are too afraid to take the risk needed to stay the top of their respective industries. Sony should be embracing the Internet and see it as a great opportunity to grow their business and provide an outstanding service and product to its customers. Instead they see it a roadblock. Something they need to control or hamper so they can continue to do business as they see fit instead of in the manner their customers demand. -Seranfall
I've gone to many lan parties. From 5 people upto 100 people. I have to say the biggest gripe is power outages. Make sure you properly test the power network at the event location. Make sure you have ample power. Test everything. Make sure your network, power, and servers are up to the challenge. Also have backups! Things will die, make sure you have a few spares of everything. If your having the lan party in the summer make sure the place has sufficient cooling. When I went to lansanity someone turned the A/C up too high and it froze so it stopped working. Try having 100 people in a room and it be 95 inside. There were computers overheating all over the place.